Summary

Atmospheric mineral dust affects in different ways the aviation activities: damages aircraft turbines, disturbs airport operations when visibility is reduced, produces dangerous flight conditions when icing is triggered by dust. All this can lead to tragic events, unplanned repairing costs and costly fight rescheduling. Scientific developments in dust measurement and modeling enables more optimized approaches to reduce costs, optimize flight planning and save lives.

The Workshop aims to:
• review current research and commercial solutions to deal with the impacts of
dust on aviation;
• explore and propose actions for establishing efficient integration and
interfacing between data producers and data users.